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- Title
AcI: Inheritance and influence on some languages of Western Europe.
- Authors
Milano, Federica Da; Cuzzolin, Pierluigi
- Abstract
This paper examines the history of the Accusativus cum Infinitivo (henceforth: AcI) construction in some languages of Western Europe (the Romance and Germanic languages), and attempts to ascertain whether the AcI in the modern languages is modelled on the AcI of Latin or whether the form was simply inherited. In this paper, only those constructions which are formed with verbs of saying or thinking + infinitive are considered instances of true AcI constructions. Following Pountain (1998), we attempt to distinguish 'hard' vs 'weak', 'total' vs 'partial', 'learnèd' vs 'non-learnèd' Latinisms. In conclusion, we hypothesize that the construction is favoured by Latin models, but it is consistent with structural patterns already occurring in the languages involved.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; MODERN languages; GERMANIC languages; ROMANCE languages; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2019, Vol 33, Issue 1, p108
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00024.mil